I'm not excessively eccentric but I have my moments. Most of the time I think I count as 'quirky' but a few of my behaviours have nothing to do with being strange and everything to do with being absentminded.
I habitually mismatch my earrings, shoes, and socks. To me a successful day is one in which I manage to wear two of the same shoes. More than once I have mismatched my shoes and failed to notice until I took them off. I don't do things like this because I want to be different--I do them because I'm absentminded and wearing two of the same of something might as well be rocket science. I have five ear piercings so each ear takes two and a half pairs of earrings--dealing with that many finicky small pieces of jewellery and keeping track of them can be difficult. So can getting dressed at 5.30 in the morning if you don't happen to be a morning person--finding two matching socks or shoes or earrings in a dark room requires more mental acuity than I can well spare before lunchtime. (Actually it requires more than I can muster even on a good day, but I don't like to admit to that.)
In the end I kept doing all of it because I got used to it and kind of liked being seen as a little on the eccentric side and I let everyone think that's why I started in the first place--no one needs to know that I fail at life on such a basic level, right?
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